Things I Want My Daughters to Know
By (Author) Elizabeth Noble
Penguin Books Ltd
Penguin Books Ltd
24th November 2008
4th September 2008
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
823.92
Short-listed for Galaxy British Book Awards: Sainsbury's Popular Fiction Award 2009
Paperback
448
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 27mm
308g
After a TOP 5 BESTSELLER outing in hardback, this knockout paperback is guaranteed to dominate the charts again this autumn 'My beautiful girls. If you've read this, you'll know it contains some - not all, but some - of the things I want my daughters to know. And the greatest of these is love ...' How would you say goodbye to those you love most in the world Barbara must say a final farewell to her four daughters. But how can she find the words And how can she leave them when they each have so much growing up to do There's commitment-phobic Lisa. Brittle, unhappily married Jennifer. Free-spirited traveller Amanda. And teenage Hannah, stumbling her way towards adulthood. Barbara's answer is to write each daughter a letter, finally expressing the hopes, fears, dreams and secrets she couldn't always voice. These words will touch the girls in different - sometimes shocking - ways, unlocking emotions and passions to set them on their own journey of discovery through life.
Witty, affectionate and unashamedly tear-jerking Red Irresistible comfort read Glamour So fluid, the pages turn themselves Daily Mirror
Elizabeth Noble's previous Sunday Times bestselling novels include- The Reading Group, which reached number one, The Friendship Test (formerly published as The Tenko Club), Alphabet Weekends, Things I Want My Daughters to Know, The Girl Next Door, The Way We Were, Between a Mother and her Child, Love, Iris and The Family Holiday. Between a Mother and her Child and Love, Iris were both Richard & Judy Book Club picks. Elizabeth Noble lives in Surrey with her husband and has two adult daughters. Other People's Husbands is her tenth novel.